Re: IDE zip drive question

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Luke -

First, make sure your kernel supports the ZIP drive.  You should
answer "yes" to this question:

   Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support (new)' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY

I do not think this can be compiled as a module.

Then, note that Iomega partitions a zip disk with only one partition,
but it's partition number four.  You can mount it like this:

    mount -tmsdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip

However, to take advantage of the long filename support introduced
with Windows 95, you can use the "vfat" filesystem instead:

    mount -tvfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip

                          - Jim Van Zandt



>Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:30:21 -0400 (EDT)
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>Houdy!
>
>First of all: does anyone know how to mount an IOMEGA IDE zip drive?  It
>finds the drive on boot up ("hdb: iomega zip", and then gives the same
>number of cyls,sects,and heads[tracks], as my harddrive (787/64/63 for
>both of them, which I find odd).
>
>However, when I try to mount as msdos, I get errors about bad FS type, or
>some such.
>Once mount even asked me if I was really trying to mount an extended
>partition, instead of it's logical partition.
>
>Fdisk reports that the main partition is non linux, because it's start and
>end regons are out side (cylinder?) bounderies.
>I should have screen captured the entire thing on my terminal, but
>alass...
>
>Syslog reports that "modprobe could not find kernel module "iomega"." (I
>tried "mount -t iomega /dev/hdb /mnt/zip").
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Other question:
>
>Does anyone have any idea how one can redirect the console to a ttyS
>device?  I can redirect the boot prompt, etc. of LILO, but after it "boots
>l" or whatever it "boots", everything reverts back to the standard system
>console.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Luke
>
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